EP3451542A1 - Émetteur réseau à commande de phase fondé sur la polarisation, terminal mobile - Google Patents

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EP3451542A1
EP3451542A1 EP16922212.2A EP16922212A EP3451542A1 EP 3451542 A1 EP3451542 A1 EP 3451542A1 EP 16922212 A EP16922212 A EP 16922212A EP 3451542 A1 EP3451542 A1 EP 3451542A1
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  • the present invention relates to the communications field, and in particular, to a polar phased-array transmitter and a mobile terminal.
  • phased-array transmitter featuring spatial power combination, beam steering, high system efficiency, high scanning resolution, and a low phase/amplitude error is urgently demanded.
  • a polar phased-array transmitter described in this specification can meet a requirement of a wireless communications system for performance such as a wide frequency band, high scanning resolution, and a low phase/amplitude error.
  • an embodiment of this application provides a polar phased-array transmitter, including: a polar signal generator, configured to: receive in-phase and quadrature baseband signals, and perform quadrature-to-polar processing on the in-phase and quadrature baseband signals to generate n amplitude signals and n phase signals, where n is a natural number greater than 1; and a transmit array, where the transmit array includes n transmit channels, each transmit channel corresponds to one amplitude signal in the n amplitude signals and one phase signal in the n phase signals, the n transmit channels are configured to: respectively receive the n phase signals, and respectively perform phase modulation and phase shifting on the n phase signals by using a local oscillator signal under control of n phase-shift control signals to obtain n phase modulation signals, a phase difference between any two phase modulation signals whose phases are adjacent in the n phase modulation signals is ⁇ , ⁇ ranges from 0° to 360°, and the n transmit channels are further configured to respectively perform amplitude signals and
  • each transmit channel in the n transmit channels includes: a modulation phase shifter and a power amplifier;
  • the modulation phase shifter is configured to: receive a first phase signal from the n phase signals generated by the polar signal generator, and perform phase modulation and phase shifting on the first phase signal by using the local oscillator signal under control of a first phase-shift control signal corresponding to each transmit channel to obtain a first phase modulation signal;
  • the power amplifier is configured to: receive a first amplitude signal in the n amplitude signals generated by the polar signal generator, and perform amplitude modulation and power amplification on the first phase modulation signal according to the received first amplitude signal to obtain a first radio frequency signal.
  • each transmit channel further includes an amplitude decoder
  • the power amplifier specifically includes: multiple digital power amplifiers and a signal power combiner
  • the amplitude decoder is configured to: decode the first amplitude signal to obtain multiple decoded amplitude signals, and control switch statuses of the multiple digital power amplifiers respectively by using the multiple decoded amplitude signals, so that amplitude modulation and power amplification are performed on the first phase modulation signal
  • the signal power combiner combines signals obtained after amplitude modulation and power amplification performed by the multiple digital power amplifiers into the first radio frequency signal, and outputs the first radio frequency signal.
  • the multiple digital power amplifiers are switch-mode power amplifiers.
  • a phase path and an amplitude path are separated from each other, and this strikes a balance between efficiency and linearity. Therefore, switch-mode power amplifiers can be used, and this improves efficiency of the polar phased-array transmitter and has extremely small impact on linearity of the polar phased-array transmitter.
  • the power amplifier is an analog power amplifier.
  • the modulation phase shifter includes: a phase modulator and a phase shifter coupled to the phase modulator; the phase modulator is configured to: separately receive the first phase signal and the local oscillator signal, and perform phase modulation on the first phase signal by using the local oscillator signal; and the phase shifter is configured to perform, under the control of the first phase-shift control signal, phase shifting on the first phase signal modulated by the phase modulator, so as to obtain the first phase modulation signal.
  • the modulation phase shifter includes: a phase modulator and a phase shifter coupled to the phase modulator; the phase shifter is configured to: receive the local oscillator signal and the first phase-shift control signal, and perform phase shifting on the local oscillator signal under the control of the first phase-shift control signal; and the phase modulator is configured to: receive the first phase signal, and perform phase modulation on the first phase signal by using the local oscillator signal obtained after phase shifting performed by the phase shifter, so as to generate the first phase modulation signal.
  • the polar phased-array transmitter further includes: a first signal processor, and the first signal processor is separately coupled to the polar signal generator and the transmit array; and the first signal processor is configured to separately perform digital predistortion processing on the n amplitude signals and the n phase signals generated by the polar signal generator.
  • Digital predistortion can reduce an amplitude error caused by non-linearity to each amplitude signal, and reduce a phase error caused by non-linearity to each phase signal, thereby reducing signal distortion.
  • the polar phased-array transmitter further includes: a phase-shift controller, configured to generate the n phase-shift control signals.
  • the polar phased-array transmitter further includes: a second signal processor, the second signal processor is separately coupled to the phase-shift controller and the transmit array, and the second signal processor is configured to separately perform digital predistortion processing on the n phase-shift control signals generated by the phase-shift controller.
  • the n transmit channels in the transmit array may be integrated in one chip.
  • the polar signal generator and the transmit array may be integrated in one chip.
  • the transmit array, the polar signal generator, the phase-shift controller, the first signal processor, and the second signal processor may be integrated in one chip.
  • the polar phased-array transmitter further includes: an antenna array, the antenna array includes n antennas arranged at an equal distance, the n antennas are coupled to the n transmit channels in a one-to-one manner, and the n antennas are configured to respectively receive the n radio frequency signals generated by the n transmit channels and transmit the n radio frequency signals.
  • the n antenna is configured to transmit the n radio frequency signals based on a beamforming technology.
  • a distance between any two adjacent antennas in the n antennas in an arrangement direction roughly remains unchanged.
  • the n antenna may be arranged in a straight line, an oblique line, a flying wild geese shape, or a circular shape.
  • an embodiment of this application provides a mobile terminal, including: a baseband chip, the polar phased-array transmitter according to any one of the implementations of the foregoing aspect, and an antenna array; the baseband chip is configured to generate a quadrature digital baseband signal; the polar phased-array transmitter is configured to: perform quadrature-to-polar processing on the quadrature digital baseband signal to generate n amplitude signals and n phase signals, separately perform phase modulation and phase shifting on the n phase signals by using a local oscillator signal to obtain n phase modulation signals, and perform amplitude modulation and power amplification on the n phase modulation signals by using the amplitude signals to obtain n radio frequency signals, where n is a natural number greater than 1; and the antenna array is configured to obtain the n radio frequency signals from the polar phased-array transmitter, and transmit the n radio frequency signals.
  • the mobile terminal is a mobile phone, a tablet, a notebook computer, or a vehicular device.
  • the mobile terminal is a terminal supporting a 5G mobile communications technology.
  • an embodiment of this application further provides a chip, including: an amplitude path, a phase path, a phase-shift circuit, and a transmit array;
  • the amplitude path is configured to generate a segmented thermometer code based on a clock signal and an amplitude signal, where the segmented thermometer code includes: the least significant bit and the most significant bit;
  • the phase path is configured to perform quadrature phase modulation on a phase signal based on the clock signal by using a local oscillator signal to obtain n first phase modulation signals, where n is a natural number greater than 1;
  • the phase-shift circuit is configured to: receive a phase-shift control code generated by a phase-shift controller, and generate n phase-shift control signals according to the phase-shift control code;
  • the transmit array includes n transmit channels, the n transmit channels are configured to respectively perform phase shifting on the n first phase modulation signals under control of the n phase-shift control signals to obtain n groups of second phase modulation signals, each group of second phase modul
  • the present invention provides the transmitter based on a polar phased-array architecture.
  • An amplitude path is separated from a phase path, and a digital predistortion technology is combined. Therefore, the transmitter has advantages such as a wide frequency band, high scanning resolution, and a low phase/amplitude error, and can meet a performance requirement of a wireless communications system.
  • a phased-array system is briefly described first.
  • an isotropic antenna evenly transmits radio frequency signals in all directions in an ideal case.
  • a large amount of energy in the radio frequency signals transmitted by the isotropic antenna is not received by a receive antenna, resulting in a relatively low received signal power and a relatively large spatial transmission power loss.
  • a directional antenna beam can be generated by using a beamforming (beam forming) technology. Therefore, applying the beamforming technology to the wireless transceiver system can resolve problems of a low received signal power and a large spatial transmission power loss.
  • the phased-array system is a wireless transceiver system using the beamforming technology.
  • a phased-array system 300 includes multiple transmit channels. Antennas corresponding to all the transmit channels are arranged at an equal distance d as a linear array, and a phase difference between input radio frequency signals of adjacent antennas is ⁇ .
  • each transmit channel includes an independently controlled phase shifter, and controls the phase difference ⁇ between the radio frequency signals by using the phase shifter.
  • a minimum phase-shift degree of the phase shifter is phase-shift resolution
  • a minimum phase-shift degree of the beam angle ⁇ is scanning resolution.
  • phase-shift resolution of the phased-array system 300 when the phase-shift resolution of the phased-array system 300 is fixed (that is, the phase difference ⁇ remains unchanged), the scanning resolution can be improved (that is, the beam angle ⁇ is decreased) by increasing the distance d between adjacent antennas. Higher scanning resolution indicates a larger transmission radius of the phased-array system 300. It can be learned that improving the phase-shift resolution (that is, decreasing the phase difference ⁇ ) of the phased-array system 300 can effectively increase the transmission radius and reduce the distance d between adjacent antennas. Therefore, a phase shifter with high phase-shift resolution is a key component for implementing a miniaturized phased-array system 400 with high scanning resolution.
  • phase shifter with low phase-shift resolution may require the phased-array system 300 to improve the scanning resolution, the distance d needs to be increased, and this leads to an increase in volume. Therefore, the phase shifter with low phase-shift resolution is not suitable to a miniaturized mobile device.
  • FIG. 4a is a schematic architectural diagram of a polar phased-array transmitter 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the polar phased-array transmitter 400 includes a polar signal generator 401 and a transmit array 402.
  • the polar signal generator 401 is configured to perform quadrature-to-polar processing on in-phase and quadrature baseband signals (respectively indicated by I and Q) to generate n amplitude signals (respectively indicated by A1-An) and n phase signals (respectively indicated by ⁇ 1- ⁇ n), where n is a natural number greater than 1.
  • the transmit array 402 is coupled to the polar signal generator 401.
  • the transmit array 402 is an array including n transmit channels 4020.
  • Each transmit channel 4020 corresponds to one amplitude signal in the n amplitude signals and one phase signal in the n phase signals.
  • the n transmit channels 4020 are configured to: respectively receive the n phase signals, and perform phase modulation and phase shifting on the n phase signals by using a local oscillator signal under control of n phase-shift control signals (respectively indicated by PS1-PSn) to obtain n phase modulation signals.
  • Each transmit channel corresponds to one phase-shift control signal, and performs amplitude modulation and power amplification on the n phase modulation signals by using the n amplitude signals to obtain n radio frequency signals.
  • Each transmit channel 4020 performs phase shifting on one phase signal under control of one phase-shift control signal.
  • the n phase-shift control signals are independent of each other. Therefore, phase shifting by each of the n transmit channels is performed independently.
  • a transmit channel 1 corresponds to a phase signal ⁇ 1 and an amplitude signal A1
  • a transmit channel 2 corresponds to a phase signal ⁇ 2 and an amplitude signal A2
  • a transmit channel n corresponds to a phase signal ⁇ n and an amplitude signal An.
  • a phase-shift control signal PS1 controls the transmit channel 1
  • a phase-shift control signal PS2 controls the transmit channel 2
  • a phase-shift control signal PSn controls the transmit channel n.
  • a phase difference between any two phase modulation signals whose phases are adjacent is ⁇ .
  • phase values of the n phase modulation signals form an arithmetic progression, and a common difference of the progression is the phase difference ⁇ .
  • a common difference of the progression is the phase difference ⁇ .
  • an angle of phase shifting performed by the transmit channel 1 on the phase signal ⁇ 1 is ⁇
  • an angle of phase shifting performed by the transmit channel 2 on the phase signal ⁇ 2 is 2 ⁇
  • an angle of phase shifting performed by a transmit channel 3 on a phase signal ⁇ 3 is 3 ⁇ , and so on.
  • the angle of phase shifting performed by the transmit channel 1 on the phase signal ⁇ 1 is ⁇
  • the angle of phase shifting performed by the transmit channel 2 on the phase signal ⁇ 2 is 3 ⁇
  • the n transmit channels 4020 in the transmit array 402 may be integrated in a chip. Further, the polar signal generator 401 and the transmit array 402 may also be integrated in a chip.
  • the polar phased-array transmitter 400 may further include an antenna array 403.
  • the antenna array 403 includes n antennas arranged at an equal distance.
  • the n antennas are coupled to power amplifiers in the n transmit channels in a one-to-one manner.
  • the n antennas are configured to: respectively receive the n radio frequency signals generated by the n transmit channels, and transmit the n radio frequency signals based on a beamforming technology.
  • the n antennas may be arranged in a straight line, an oblique line, a flying wild geese shape, or a circular shape (not shown herein).
  • a specific arrangement form may be flexibly set according to the performance requirement of the polar phased-array transmitter 400 and a structure of a corresponding receiving system. For details, refer to the prior art.
  • a distance (d' in the figure indicates a distance between adjacent antennas in an arrangement direction) between any two adjacent antennas in the arrangement direction roughly remains unchanged.
  • the n transmit channels each can independently perform phase shifting under the control of the n phase-shift control signals. Therefore, a phase of a radio frequency signal output by each transmit channel can be adjusted in a range from 0° to 360°, thereby meeting a beamforming requirement.
  • the polar phased-array transmitter 400 is integrated in a chip, because the antenna distance d is generally small, according to a principle of the phased-array system shown in FIG. 3 and formula (1), it can be learned that using the polar phased-array transmitter 400 provided in this embodiment of the present invention can improve scanning resolution by improving phase-shift resolution (that is, decreasing the phase difference ⁇ ) when the antenna distance d in the antenna array is small. Therefore, the polar phased-array transmitter 400 provided in this embodiment can be applied to various miniaturized devices such as a mobile terminal.
  • each transmit channel 4020 in the transmit array 402 may include: a modulation phase shifter 4021 and a power amplifier (PA) 4022.
  • the modulation phase shifter 4021 in each transmit channel 4020 is configured to: receive a first phase signal (for example, ⁇ 1) corresponding to the transmit channel 4020 from the n phase signals ( ⁇ 1- ⁇ n) generated by the polar signal generator 401, receive a local oscillator signal LO from a local oscillator (not shown in the figure), and perform phase modulation and phase shifting on the received first phase signal by using the local oscillator signal LO under control of a first phase-shift control signal (for example, PS1) corresponding to the transmit channel 4020 to obtain a first phase modulation signal.
  • a first phase signal for example, ⁇ 1 corresponding to the transmit channel 4020
  • a first phase-shift control signal for example, PS1
  • the power amplifier 4022 is configured to: receive a first amplitude signal (for example, A1) corresponding to the transmit channel 4020 from the n amplitude signals (A1-An) generated by the polar signal generator 401, and perform, according to the received first amplitude signal A1, amplitude modulation and power amplification on the first phase modulation signal generated by the modulation phase shifter 4021, so as to obtain a first radio frequency signal.
  • a first amplitude signal for example, A1
  • A1-An amplitude signals
  • the power amplifier 4022 is configured to: receive a first amplitude signal (for example, A1) corresponding to the transmit channel 4020 from the n amplitude signals (A1-An) generated by the polar signal generator 401, and perform, according to the received first amplitude signal A1, amplitude modulation and power amplification on the first phase modulation signal generated by the modulation phase shifter 4021, so as to obtain a first radio frequency signal.
  • the first amplitude signal and the first phase modulation signal are respectively the amplitude signal A1 and the phase signal ⁇ 1 corresponding to the transmit channel 1.
  • the first amplitude signal and the first phase modulation signal are respectively the amplitude signal A2 and the phase signal ⁇ 2 corresponding to the transmit channel 2, and so on.
  • hardware structures of all channels in FIG. 4a are the same, and mutual reference may be made to each other. For brief description, not all the transmit channels are shown herein.
  • the power amplifier 4022 may include a PA array including multiple digital PAs 40221 (that is, PA1, PA2, ..., PAn shown in the figure) arranged in parallel, and a signal power combiner 40222 separately coupled to the multiple digital PAs 40221.
  • Each transmit channel 4020 may further include an amplitude decoder 4023.
  • the amplitude decoder 4023 is configured to: decode a first amplitude signal A1 corresponding to the transmit channel 4020 to obtain multiple decoded amplitude signals (indicated by All-Aln), and control switch statuses of the multiple digital power amplifiers in the PA 4022 by using the multiple decoded amplitude signals (All-Aln) that are obtained after the decoding, that is, control a quantity of digital power amplifiers that are switched on in the PA array including the multiple digital power amplifiers, thereby controlling a gain of the first phase modulation signal that is input to the power amplifier 4022, and implementing amplitude modulation and power amplification. Then the signal power combiner 40222 combines first phase modulation signals obtained after modulation and power amplification performed by the multiple digital PAs 40221 into a first radio frequency signal RF, and outputs the first radio frequency signal.
  • switch-mode PAs including a class D PA, a class E PA, a class D -1 PA, and the like
  • a phase path that is, a transmission path of the phase signals
  • an amplitude path that is, a transmission path of the amplitude signals
  • the multiple digital PAs 40221 in the power amplifier 4022 may use PAs with high efficiency but poor linearity, for example, the switch-mode PAs (including the class D PA, the class E PA, the class D -1 PA, and the like).
  • a PA may be controlled by using a digital amplitude signal to support a high peak-to-average power ratio (peak-to-average power, PAPR) signal.
  • the polar phased-array transmitter 400 may further include a first signal processor 405.
  • the first signal processor 405 is separately coupled to the polar signal generator 401 and the transmit array 402.
  • the first signal processor 405 is configured to separately perform digital predistortion (Digital Pre-Distortion, DPD) processing on the n amplitude signals and the n phase signals generated by the polar signal generator 401 to reduce an amplitude error caused by non-linearity to each of the amplitude signals and reduce a phase error caused by non-linearity to each of the phase signals, and then respectively provide the n transmit channels in the transmit array 402 with the n phase signals and the n amplitude signals obtained after the DPD processing.
  • DPD Digital Pre-Distortion
  • the power amplifier 4022 may also be an analog power amplifier.
  • both an amplitude signal and a phase signal corresponding to each transmit channel 4020 are signals in a digital domain. Therefore, when the power amplifier 4022 uses an analog power amplifier, digital-to-analog conversion needs to be separately performed on the first amplitude signal and the first phase modulation signal that are input to the power amplifier 4022. Then the power amplifier 4022 combines, in an analog domain, the first amplitude signal and the first phase modulation signal obtained after the digital-to-analog conversion into a first radio frequency signal.
  • the modulation phase shifter 4021 may specifically include: a phase modulator (phase modulator) and a phase shifter (phase shifter).
  • the modulation phase shifter 4021 may first perform phase shifting and then phase modulation, or first perform phase modulation and then phase shifting.
  • a sequence of phase modulation and phase shifting may be flexibly set according to an actual requirement.
  • a modulation phase shifter 500 may include: a phase modulator 501 and a phase shifter 502 coupled to the phase modulator 501.
  • the phase modulator 501 is configured to: separately receive the first phase signal A1 and the local oscillator signal LO, and perform phase modulation on the first phase signal A1 by using the local oscillator signal LO.
  • the phase shifter 502 is configured to: perform, under the control of the first phase-shift control signal PS1, phase shifting on the signal modulated by the phase modulator 501 to obtain a first phase modulation signal PM1, and then send the first phase modulation signal PM1 to a subsequent PA for amplification processing.
  • For specific amplification processing refer to FIG. 4a to FIG. 4c and the foregoing description, and details are not described herein again.
  • the modulation phase shifter 500 may also include: a phase modulator 501 and a phase shifter 502 coupled to the phase modulator 501.
  • the phase shifter 502 is configured to: receive the local oscillator signal LO and the first phase-shift control signal PS1, and perform phase shifting on the local oscillator signal under the control of the first phase-shift control signal PS1.
  • the phase modulator 501 is configured to: receive the first phase signal A1, and perform phase modulation on the first phase signal A1 by using the local oscillator signal obtained after the phase shifting, so as to generate a first phase modulation signal PM1.
  • the polar phased-array transmitter 400 may further include a phase-shift controller 404, configured to generate the n phase-shift control signals (PS1-PSn), so as to independently control modulation phase shifters in the n transmit channels by using the n control signals.
  • a phase-shift controller 404 configured to generate the n phase-shift control signals (PS1-PSn), so as to independently control modulation phase shifters in the n transmit channels by using the n control signals.
  • the polar phased-array transmitter 400 may further include a second signal processor 406.
  • the second signal processor 406 is separately coupled to the phase-shift controller 404 and the transmit array 402.
  • the second signal processor 406 is configured to: separately perform digital predistortion processing on the n phase-shift control signals generated by the phase-shift controller 404, so as to reduce respective errors of the n phase-shift control signals; and respectively provide the transmit channels in the transmit array 402 with the n phase-shift control signals obtained after the digital predistortion processing, thereby implementing independent calibration of the phase shifter in the modulation phase shifter 4021.
  • the modulation phase shifter 4021 is disposed in the phase path, the phase path is independent of the amplitude path, and an output amplitude of the polar phased-array transmitter 400 is mainly determined by an amplitude signal controlling the power amplifier 4022. Therefore, phase error calibration performed on the phase shifter in the modulation phase shifter 4021 has extremely small impact on the output amplitude of the polar phased-array transmitter 400. In addition, after the phase shifter is calibrated, higher phase-shift resolution can be implemented, and this helps to improve the scanning resolution of the polar phased-array transmitter 400.
  • FIG. 6 shows a result of a test on a polar phased-array transmitter 400 that does not use digital predistortion and one that uses digital predistortion in an example of a 10-bit (corresponding to 1024 (2 10 ) phase statuses) phase-shift control signal.
  • phase resolution of the polar phased-array transmitter 400 reaches 3.5°. Therefore, the performance of the power amplifier 4022 may be significantly improved, and the scanning resolution of the polar phased-array transmitter 400 may be improved.
  • a root-mean-square (RMS) phase/amplitude error obtained after digital predistortion is less than 0.3°/0.2 dB, and may also meet a performance requirement of a wireless communications system for a low phase/amplitude error.
  • FIG. 7 shows a polar diagram of phase and power changes obtained by testing the polar phased-array transmitter 400 that uses the second signal processor 406 to perform digital predistortion. It can be learned from FIG. 7 that transmit powers of the polar phased-array transmitter 400 in all phases are relatively balanced, and good stability is maintained between the transmit channels.
  • an embodiment of the present invention further provides a chip 600 integrated with a polar phased-array transmitter.
  • FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B show a structure of a chip integrated with only a 4-element digital modulated polar phased-array transmitter.
  • the chip 600 may be integrated with any multi-element digital modulated polar phased-array transmitter according to a transmit requirement. Therefore, the chip 600 provided in this embodiment of the present invention is not limited to being integrated with the 4-element digital modulated polar phased-array transmitter. It should be noted that mutual reference may be made between an architecture of the polar phased-array transmitter in FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B and that of the polar phased-array transmitter shown in FIG. 4a to FIG. 4c .
  • the chip 600 may be divided into: a low-voltage differential signaling (Low-Voltage Differential Signaling, LVDS) input/output interface (I/O) 601, an amplitude path 602, a phase path 603, a phase-shift circuit 604, and a transmit array 605.
  • LVDS Low-Voltage Differential Signaling
  • the low-voltage differential signaling I/Q 601 is configured to: generate an amplitude signal A and a phase signal ⁇ respectively according to differential amplitude signals (A+, A-) and differential phase signals ( ⁇ +, ⁇ -) provided by a polar signal generator (not shown in the figure), and generate a clock signal CLK according to differential system clock signals (CLK+, CLK-).
  • the amplitude path 602 is configured to generate a segmented thermometer code (thermometer code) based on the clock signal CLK and the amplitude signal A.
  • the segmented thermometer code includes: the least significant bit (Least Significant Bit, LSB) and the most significant bit (the Most Significant Bit, MSB).
  • the phase path 603 is configured to perform quadrature phase modulation on the phase signal ⁇ based on the clock signal CLK by using a local oscillator signal to obtain n first phase modulation signals, where n is a natural number greater than 1.
  • the amplitude path 602 and the phase path 603 perform signal processing based on a same clock signal CLK to implement time synchronization.
  • the figure shows four first phase modulation signals, indicated by PM_I+, PM_I-, PM_Q+, and PM_Q-respectively.
  • PM_I+ and PM_I- are a pair of differential signals, where I indicates an in-phase component, and similarly, Q indicates a quadrature component.
  • the phase-shift circuit 604 is configured to: receive a phase-shift control code (PS code) generated by a phase-shift controller (not shown), and generate n phase-shift control signals according to the phase-shift control code (PS code).
  • PS code phase-shift control code
  • the figure shows four phase-shift control signals, indicated by PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 respectively.
  • the transmit array 605 includes n transmit channels.
  • the n transmit channels respectively perform phase shifting on the n first phase modulation signals under control of the n phase-shift control signals to obtain n groups of second phase modulation signals.
  • Each group of second phase modulation signals includes two differential second phase modulation signals.
  • the n transmit channels are further configured to respectively perform amplitude modulation and power amplification on the n groups of second phase modulation signals under control of the segmented thermometer code to obtain n radio frequency signals.
  • radio frequency signals are indicated by RF1, RF2, RF3, and RF4 respectively
  • four groups of second phase-shift modulation signals are indicated by (PM1+, PM1-), (PM2+, PM2-), (PM3+, PM3-), and (PM4+, PM4-) respectively
  • two differential second phase modulation signals are indicated by PM1+ and PM1-.
  • FIG. 8A and FIG. 8B further show an antenna array 606 coupled to the chip 600.
  • the antenna array includes n antennas.
  • the n antennas are coupled to the n transmit channels in the chip in a one-to-one manner.
  • the n antennas are arranged at an equal distance to send the n radio frequency signals in a beamforming manner.
  • FIG. 4b and the corresponding description, and details are not described herein again.
  • the low-voltage differential signaling I/O 601 may include: a first LVDS receiver 6011, a second LVDS receiver 6012, and a third LVDS receiver 6013.
  • the first LVDS receiver 6011 is configured to: receive the differential amplitude signals (A+, A-), and generate the amplitude signal A.
  • the second LVDS receiver 6012 is configured to: receive the differential phase signals ( ⁇ +, ⁇ -), and generate the phase signal ⁇ .
  • the third LVDS receiver 6013 is configured to: receive the differential system clock signals (CLK+, CLK-), and generate the clock signal CLK.
  • the differential amplitude signals (A+, A-) and the differential phase signals ( ⁇ +, ⁇ -) may be obtained after quadrature-to-polar processing performed by the polar signal generator on a quadrature baseband signal.
  • the differential system clock signals (CLK+, CLK-) may be provided by a clock generator or a system clock bus.
  • the amplitude path 602 may include: an amplitude decoder 6021, configured to generate the segmented thermometer code based on the clock signal CLK by using the amplitude signal A.
  • an amplitude decoder 6021 configured to generate the segmented thermometer code based on the clock signal CLK by using the amplitude signal A.
  • the phase path 603 may include: a single-end to differential balun 6031, configured to covert a local oscillator signal at twice frequency (2xLO) into differential local oscillator signals (2xLO+ and 2xLO-); a quadrature output frequency divider 6032, configured to perform frequency-halving on the differential local oscillator signals (2xLO+ and 2xLO-) to obtain four quadrature local oscillator signals (LO_I+, LO_I-, LO_Q+, and LO_Q-); and a quadrature phase modulator 6033, configured to perform phase modulation on the amplitude signal ⁇ based on the clock signal CLK by using the four quadrature local oscillator signals (LO_I+, LO_I-, LO_Q+, and LO_Q-) to obtain the four first phase modulation signals (PM_I+, PM_I-, PM_Q+, and PM_Q-).
  • a single-end to differential balun 6031 configured to covert a local oscillator signal
  • the phase-shift circuit 604 may include: a serial peripheral interface (serial peripheral interface, SPI) 6041, configured to: receive one phase-shift control code (PS code) from the phase-shift controller (not shown in the figure), and obtain four pieces of PS code by means of serial-to-parallel conversion; and a phase-shift decoder 6042, configured to decode the four pieces of PS code that are obtained by means of conversion by the SPI 6041 to generate four phase-shift control signals (PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4).
  • SPI serial peripheral interface
  • Each transmit channel in the transmit array 605 may include: a digital phase shifter 6051, a first digital power amplifier array 6052, and a second digital power amplifier array 6053.
  • the digital phase shifter 6051 is configured to obtain the four first phase modulation signals (PM_I+, PM_I-, PM_Q+, and PM_Q-) from the phase path 603, and perform phase shifting on the four first phase modulation signals (PM_I+, PM_I-, PM_Q+, and PM_Q-) under control of any phase-shift control signal (for example, PS1) in the four phase-shift control signals (PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4) generated by the phase-shift circuit 604, so as to obtain a group of second phase modulation signals (for example, PM1+ and PM1-).
  • any phase-shift control signal for example, PS1
  • PS1 phase-shift control signals
  • the first digital power amplifier array 6052 and the second digital power amplifier array 6053 separately perform amplitude modulation and power amplification on two differential second phase modulation signals in the group of second phase modulation signals under the control of the segmented thermometer code, to generate a radio frequency signal RF1.
  • Signals obtained after amplitude modulation and power amplification separately performed by the first digital power amplifier array 6052 and the second digital power amplifier array 6053 may be specifically combined into the radio frequency signal RF1 by a matching circuit (not shown herein; for details, refer to the output matching circuit 105 in FIG. 1 ).
  • an embodiment of the present invention further provides a mobile terminal 700, including: a baseband chip 701, configured to generate a quadrature digital baseband signal;
  • the mobile terminal 700 may be a mobile phone, a tablet, a notebook computer, a vehicular device, or the like.
  • the mobile terminal 700 provided in this embodiment can be a terminal device that uses a polar code for coding, for example, a 5G (fifth generation) mobile communications technology device.
  • the baseband chip 701 may also be referred to as a baseband processor, a communication processor, a modem (modem), or the like.
  • the baseband chip 701 and the polar phased-array transmitter 702 may also be integrated together in the future, for example, integrated with an application processor (AP), an image signal processor (ISP), or the like in a chip to form a System-On-a-Chip (SOC).
  • AP application processor
  • ISP image signal processor
  • SOC System-On-a-Chip
  • the computer-readable medium includes a computer storage medium and a communications medium, where the communications medium includes any medium that enables a computer program to be transmitted from one place to another.
  • the storage medium may be any available medium accessible to a general-purpose or dedicated computer.

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